Three minutes explaining your redundancy is about two minutes and forty seconds too long.
I’ve watched people answer that question with the restructure, the parent company, who signed it off, and a careful note that it wasn’t performance-related. Every word of it true. None of it helping.
The length is what does the damage. A long answer has the interviewer thinking about that instead of about you.
Two sentences. What happened, and what you want next. Then stop talking.
Exact wording in the video, including what to say if they push for more.
Practise it until it bores you. When it’s boring to you, it lands as neutral to them.
Redundancy actually is a line in somebody’s budget. It it is absolutely not a measurement of you, and I say that because what’s happening at the moment, it’s the slow part of this market that’s doing the quiet damage. Unemployment, it’s it’s still under 5%, but the number of people out of work a year has gone up by more than 15,000 in the 12 months.
That’s considerable. That’s quite a considerable number. But what I notice is employers are still employing. They’re still taking on people. They haven’t stopped hiring, but what’s happened significantly over the last year or two, which I’ve noticed, is they’ve come much slower at deciding. And this is where you know the risk sits in what week after week of silence does to what you think you’re worth.
And I see in interviews what and what people are willing to ask for after a considerable amount of time. So I think one of the things that’s really important for you know to gain confidence. And to get momentum, is just pick non-negotiables every week.
That could be like five targeted applications, maybe two conversations with people who you know in your sector, or one hour rehearsing out loud every week. And what this is, firstly, okay, it’s going to build momentum, but it’s also giving you a considerable amount of confidence.
So, let me know what are your three for this week? What are you going to do this week? Maybe DM me and let me know. I’d love to hear and I will get back to you.
